Sentence examples for lofty way from inspiring English sources

The lofty way to describe him would be to say that he voted his conscience.

The 43-mile track scorches its lofty way along the chalk downs, brushing past hill forts, standing stones and the oldest carved chalk figure in the land.

As poet laureate, he said he is frequently asked by new writers to endorse their books or to speak or read at various schools and is conscious of not treating the title in a lofty way.

He has had the latitude to make promises to protect health spending and clamp down on bankers, while avoiding promises to reverse recent tax rises.This emphasis on ideas may seem a rather lofty way of explaining the success of European conservatives during the recession, and the struggle of their allies in younger democracies to find a coherent and convincing voice.

"We don't do it in a very lofty way in our family.

So would the citizens of countries such as Chile, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Iran, Iraq, and Vietnam — places where the soaring rhetoric of Pax Americana was put into practice in far from lofty ways.

I'm also very suspicious of its lofty claims; ways in which it impacts our health; and very worried about what I call "Tech Stress" in our everyday lives using technology of all sorts.

The Aquila plan, like other ambitious connectivity ideas, some still in the offing, was conceived in a period one might call "peak Facebook," when it was at the height of its growth, before it attracted nearly the level of criticism it faces today, and when its goals were lofty in several ways.

O'Brien's motives for undermining fictional conventions in this way are lofty and inscrutable.

There is another way — less lofty, more mischievous, and doubtless more infuriating to some viewers, yet possessed of its own bizarre integrity.

It was unclear whether Van Gundy was paging his memory back to his days as an assistant and including the Bulls as first-round opponents in 1991, but he was putting the Raptors on a lofty pedestal after the way they have manhandled the Knicks in three consecutive double-digit regular-season victories.